Halong Bay discovery in Vietnam
In Ha Long Island has two types of limestone islands and schist islands, concentrated in two main areas are the southeast region Bai Tu Long Bay and southwestern areas of Ha Long Bay. This is the most ancient images of the terrain with tectonic age of 250 - 280 million years, is the result of the campaign raised, lowered several times from the sunken continent into the sea. The process of karst erosion and weathering almost completely Halong create a unique world. In a small area, with all our thousands of islands shaped, different looks as sparkling rubies are attached to the blue veil of the maiden. Densely concentrated zone of stone islands have spectacular scenery and many beautiful caves known as the center Natural Heritage Halong Bay, including Halong Bay and Bai Tu Long Bay part ..
The World Heritage area is recognized with an area of 434 km2, including 775 islands, such as a triangle with three vertices is the island of Dau Go (west), Ba Ham Lake (south) and Cong Tay Island (east) . Area next to the buffer zone and the national heritage is the ranking of Culture and Information in 1962.
Looking down from above, Ha Long Bay as a giant picture wearing extremely vivid. That is the beautiful art works, talent of the Creator, of the variable nature thousands of islands other inanimate stillness becomes the sculpture, painting flawless with every grace shape, medium very familiar and as alien to humans. Thousands of stone islands bobbing in the shimmering waves, both boast spectacular but also very soft and charming, lively. Halong travel between islands with thousands of stone, I doubt as to have a fairy-tale world where petrified. The island-like someone is heading to the mainland - than a person; island is like a dragon hovering above the water - Hon Rong; island is like an old man sitting fishing - Hon La Vong; and the other two sails are turning brown muscular waves out to sea - island Sail; and two chickens were hugging each other playing on the waves - Hon Trong Mai; standing between the immense sea water a giant incense burner as something sacrifice of heaven and earth - Hon Lu Huong ... All of them are really, really amazing. Rocks and wonders that unfathomable metamorphosis over time and perspective. At this point we realized that all of them are not inanimate quiet island that are as soulful and lively.
Hidden in the rocky islands that are as beautiful caves Thien Cung, Dau Go, Sung Sot, Trinh Nu, Tam Cung ... It really is the castle of the Creator among bare place scaffold. From time immemorial, Ha Long has been great poet Nguyen Trai ethnic dubbed the "Wonders of the land between the high heavens." How create labels when visitors from all over the world are coming here feeling stunned by the beauty of Ha Long wonders, they seem to feel confused and powerless by the existing capital is not enough to describe the beauty of Ha Long.
Halong Bay is also attached to the page where the glorious, heroic people of Vietnam with famous sights such as Van Don - where busy trading port in the 12th century; Bai Tho Mountain history; include Bach Dang River - is evidence of two formidable naval battle of generations of ancestors against invaders. Not only that, Ha Long is one of the cradles of human culture Halong glorious time in the Late Neolithic archaeological sites famous such as Dong Mang, Xich Tho, Soi Nhu, wells ...
Ha Long also is the focus of high biodiversity with typical eco-systems like mangrove ecosystems, coral reef ecosystems, Ang ecosystem, ecosystem tropical forests ... with thousands of plant and animal species is extremely rich and diverse as shrimp, fish, squid ... particularly rare species found only in this place.
With such special values, on 17/12/1994, during the 18th session of the World Heritage Council of UNESCO held in Thailand, Halong Bay is officially recognized Natural Heritage world. In 2000, Ha Long Bay is a UNESCO Second World Heritage values by geological, geomorphological. It has confirmed the value of global Premier's Ha Long Bay
